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Use of "Lindows" name blocked in SwedenUse of "Lindows" name blocked in SwedenPosted Dec 12, 2003 13:38 UTC (Fri) by Wol (guest, #4433)In reply to: Use of "Lindows" name blocked in Sweden by ballombe Parent article: Use of "Lindows" name blocked in Sweden Except that Sweden is a Scandinavian country, and as I understand it, "window" is derived from the scandinavian ... From Latin we have "fenestra", giving us the French "fenetre" and German "Fenster". So English most certainly did not get it from those two - from where it got maybe 95% of its words ... My understanding is it came from the Norse "wind eye", so I would have thought Scandinavian for "window" was something pretty close to "window". Cheers,
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Swedish word for "window" Posted Dec 24, 2003 22:16 UTC (Wed) by goeran (subscriber, #151) [Link] The Norwegian word is "vindu" with the etymology you describe. In Sweden, though, we use "fönster", obviously coming from the Latin word. So while the two Scandinavian languages Swedish and Norwegian are very similar, "window" is an example of a word which is quite different.I don't know what Danes use.
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